Category Archives: Visibility

The (re)gentrification of cycling

Posted on October 21, 2013 by jonemmett

A striking image occupied two full pages of the Evening Standard last week.  It featured a cyclist adorned with every possible ‘cycling visibility’ bauble you could imagine, and then some.  It was reminiscent of a cartoon I once drew to … Continue reading →

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What makes us visible? Perception vs the physical

Posted on October 2, 2013 by jonemmett

My friend Katie recently posted a link to a tutorial on how to make your own light-up cycling jacket.  You basically sew a load of LEDs into a(n otherwise perfectly wearable) jacket, hook them up to some batteries, and wire … Continue reading →

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Visibility and victim-blaming

Posted on March 18, 2013 by jonemmett

The early days – the car as a dangerous oddity Traction engines are like steam trains that drive on roads.  They became available in Britain during the 1850s, when they were mainly used to transport heavy agricultural loads.  In 1861, … Continue reading →

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Riders in the abyss

Posted on July 16, 2012 by jonemmett

Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves is a tale of a haunting.  A house is infested with voids that exist between its walls;  the adventurer who enters them finds a parallel universe of eerie nothingness, which slowly but brutally consumes the … Continue reading →

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